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Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2014
Researcher disclosed numerous security issues with Tesla S SmartCAR

A security researcher reported to Tesla company a series of security issues related with S model that could be exploited to locate and unlock the vehicles. Hackers are able to remotely locate or unlock the Tesla Motors electric vehicles, the news is curious but it isn’t a novelty. Car hacking was largely discussed in the last […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2014
Turkish Government is hijacking the IP for popular DNS providers

The Turkish Government ordered to Turk Telekom to hijack the IP address for popular free and open DNS providers such as Google’s 8.8.8.8. This is a sad moment for friends in Turkey, the Government  is under the illusion that censoring the media will be able to suppress the thought of those who disagree. A few […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2014
Google Transparency Report at first glance

Google has published its new Google Transparency Report related to the second semester of 2013, the number of requests for user information is still increasing. While the Internet users continue to claim their right to online privacy condemning the numerous surveillance program and the censorship conducted by governments all around the world, it seems that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2014
For Google it is time to encrypt all GMail connections

Google has announced to have adopted encrypt mechanisms for all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users. Google decided to encrypt all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users, all the links between its data centers will be encrypted. The surveillance programs disclosed by documents leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2014
Google Public DNS Server Traffic Hijacked, Millions users impacted

Google DNS public server was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes, the victims were hijacked to the Latin America division of BT in Venezuela and Brazil. Google is undoubtedly the main targets for hackers, its services are accessed daily by billions of Internet users, a wide audience desirable for attackers. The last successfully attack against Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2014
CDM Annual Ed. is out – Security Predictions for 2014

Enjoy the reading CDM for free.We are thrilled to join you at the RSA Conference 2014 with our Second Annual Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine.   YOUR E-MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 FLIPBOOK http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/index.html PDF http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/Cyber-Defense-Magazine-Annual-Edition-2014.pdf MOBILE http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/mobile/index.html Introduction Following the tradition I am imagining the evolution of the cyber security scenario for […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2014
Released a Metasploit module to hack 70% Android devices

Rapid 7 has released the “exploit/android/browser/webview_addjavascriptinterface” module which allows attackers to remotely access on most Android devices. A bug in the Android WebView programming interface allows attackers to remotely access on most devices running the popular OS. But it does not end here, hackers could easily access handset camera and file system simply creating a specifically crafted web […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2014
CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns

Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) CYBER WARNINGS JANUARY 2014 EDITION is available for free. Yes, 2014 is here and we’re surrounded by more and more personally identifiable information (PII) theft, as predicted. Keep an eye on these at http://www.privacyrights.org and find out that we all have common  vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) which are searchable here at the National Vulnerability Database […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Time for a Cybersecurity Overhaul

A post on cybersecurity written by Larry Karisny, director of ProjectSafety.org,a cybersecurity expert,advisor,consultant, writer and industry speaker. Most of the recent attention on cybersecurity has been directed toward the disclosure of NSA activities and recent corporate breaches now reaching record-breaking levels. Both the public and private sectors are beginning to witness how devastating cyber breaches […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2014
VPN vulnerability in Android devices allows intercept communications

Israeli Security researchers discovered an Android security flaw to bypass active VPN configurations and intercept secure communications. A new alleged flaw in Android mobile could harm user’s privacy over VPN. Israeli security researchers from the Ben Gurion University (BGU), the same that discovered a few weeks ago a vulnerability in the Samsung Knox platform, have […]